England are out of the Champions League, which youd think may be a large enough story for people not to need to make up any more twaddle on. You might think that. But youd get bad.
Red flag
Its rarely good news for Mediawatch when theres a genuinely massive football match with a genuinely massive resultbecause it generally means there is less need for the media to go around making up some bollocks about it. And Mediawatch is all about the codswallop.
Thank heavens, then, for the Mirror and their relentless, unstinting commitment to finding the most ridiculous bollocks even where no such bollocks exist or are required.
PSG star leaves Liverpool fans furious with antics after Champions League win
This is, were sorry to say, going to lead to another Mediawatch lecture about words having meanings. Sorry about that.
Consequently. Antics. The vocabulary defines this as dumb, absurd or interesting behavior. We would be fascinated to discover which of those the Mirror think Achraf Hakimi celebrated by holding up a PSG flag falls under.
And, while were at it, whether Hakimis movement was met with taunts by some in the Kop constitutes Liverpool supporters being left enraged by his foolish/outrageous/amusing behavior.
Were pretty sure lots of Liverpool fans were upset at that time. Were quite sure that it wasnt actually about Hakimi holding up a symbol. We doubt many of them also noticed.
Its embarrassing, though, that after all these decades Mediawatch can still get caught out by expecting too much of the Mirror.
Like the sweet summer baby we definitely arent, we naively thought the flag itself must have been in some manner questionable.
Like it was daubed with F*CK YNWA or someone, instead of what it really said which was and you may wish to take a time to set yourself lest your indignation overtake you France SAINT-GERMAIN.
Antics. F*cking pranks.
Surprise, surprise
Were all guilty of getting a bit too hyper-focused on the Premier League at times, but the Daily Mail are saying the quiet part loud here about the Ballon dOr contenders.
Thierry Henry snubs Mohamed Salah to name wonder former Premier League star as iconic for Ballon dOr and hints at Liverpool forwards reliance on penalties
Yes, the surprise former Premier League star is truly Raphinha and his bare 27 goals and 19 assists this season for a little-known Hispanic club called, ah, could recall now, Barcelona is it? Something like that.
Hes also scored 11 of those goals in something called the Champions League? Dunno what that is, but it sounds important.
Batter up
Regular readers will know Mediawatch is a huge fan of the current vogue for first-person headlines, but this is a truly eye-catching addition to the canon from the Express.
I watched PSG batter Liverpool Arne Slot has a big problem if Mo Salah extends his deal
We genuinely had to check this wasnt about last weeks game. It would be a very slow reveal, but would at least make some kind of sense.
Credit where its due, we guess, for at least coming up with what is perhaps the first truly unique and therefore weirdly justifiable I watched take because truly not one other person in the world at Anfield or in front of their TV watched PSG batter Liverpool on Tuesday night.
Its only words
Fair play to the Mirror for putting this headline
Arne Slot lost for words with question he was asked immediately after Liverpool lost to PSG
above a story that contains precisely 150 words from Arne Slot.
Where Eagles Stare
Still more fun to be had with those Man Utd stadium designsit seems, with some fans spotting that one of the artists impression images of the new stadium and concourse contains a small upside down Manchester United flag.
As well as fearing what seeing that might do to Liverpool fans, we are also forced to take pedantic issue with one line from the Daily Star coverage of this large news.
Eagle-eyed football fans spotted a glaring error in handout photos of Manchester Uniteds new 100, 000 seater super stadium after it was announced
Which is it, lads? Were the fans eagle-eyed or was the error glaring? Really does feel like it absolutely cannot be both and we wont be able to settle until we know for sure which one it actually is.
May day
Uniteds new stadium content isnt all Big Tops and upside-down flags, though. No, if youre the Manchester Evening News it is also a key indicator of future transfer strategy.
Manchester United drop hint on future stars in new Old Trafford stadium update
Sigh. Have they, though? Okay, go on then.
Manchester United , may have dropped a hint as to which players may be crucial to the clubs long-term future.
Always, always, always a good sign when the confidence of a headline is replaced by the word may appearing not once but twice in the intro once your click is safely banked.
The hint is that Amad Diallo, Alejandro Garnacho, Leny Yoro, Manuel Ugarte, Lisandro Martinez and Chido Obi all appear in a two-minute new stadium video from Uniteds socials.
Even at a sensible club with a clear transfer strategy, the idea that anything a team putting together this video might come up with constitutes anything more than an educated guess about which players might still be around five years down the line is a daft one.
Weve given this more thought than it merits and concluded that, yes, this is indeed even worse than seeing subtle transfer clues hidden in kit launches and calendars.
